Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
[AWR: this interview was recorded, transcribed and translated by Diana Maher Ghali]
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The closure of commercial centers, resturants, banks, gas stations and pharmacies in Saudi Arabia during prayer times is a "religious novelty" which has no foundation in religion, said the Saudi Sharī'ah researcher and member of the Saudi Commission for Investigation and Prosecution 'Abdullāh al-'...
Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2012
Presidential hopeful Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā said the the Holy Qur’ān can not be a Constitution for the nation but for believers, adding he is neither Shiite nor backed by Shiites because "we're in a Sunnī country". [Ibtisām Ta’lab, Misbāh al-Hajar and ‘Abdullah al-‘Arīnī, Al-Misrī al-Yawm,...
Date of source: Friday, March 16, 2012
Constitutional expert Dr. Muhammad Nūr Farahāt reiterated rejection of the draft law on Hadd al-Hirābah (punishment for brigandage) forwarded by Salafī Member of Parliament ‘Ādil al-‘Azzāzī of al-Nūr Party, saying the law will cause discrimination among the sons of one nation. ['Abīr Mursī, al-...
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2012
Dr. Nājih Ibrāhīm, a key founder of the Jamā’ah Islāmīyah in Egypt and the first chairman of its shūrá (consultative) council, offered an apology to Copts for “what has befallen them as a result of the Jamā’ah’s mistakes during the 1970s and 1980s”. [Robeir al-Fāris, Watanī, March 4, p. 5] Read...
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2012
Dutch scholar Johannes Jansen contributed an essay – ‘The Religious Roots of Muslim Violence’ – to a 2011 anthology entitled, ‘Terrorism: Ideology, Law, and Policy’. In it he makes the case that violence and terrorism are part and parcel of the Islamic religion, traceable to its root sources at...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
A fact-finding commission sent by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) to investigate the sectarian unrest in the troubled district of al-'Āmrīyah, Alexandria, revealed that the Christian families forced to leave their homes and property after clashes over a purported love affair...
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Salafi politics has taken Egypt by storm. This has surprised many commentators who underestimated their base of thought and non-political nature. For others, it has been a validation of years of Salafi work in mosques and surrounding communities to preach Islam and help the poor.
As an aid to...
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2012
AWR obtained the original text of the Azhar documents for Freedom. Please find it below.
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Our November 4 review of Prof. Hans Jansen’s article “Copts” in Hoeiboei, on October 14th led Jansen to write that “Most arguments in defence of Islam are known in The Netherlands for what they are, it makes little sense to repeat these another time. With best wishes, Hans Jansen.” [ In Dutch: De...